Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

The suspension bridge that goes over Rock Creek inside Kankakee River State Park will close for about four weeks. In a Facebook post from the state park made on Saturday, the bridge and the trail arou...

Kankakee City Police made a drug arrest during a routine traffic stop Saturday afternoon. According to a report, officers pulled over a red Jeep traveling on West Jeffery for allegedly driving 10 mile...

A business in Kankakee was burglarized early Saturday morning. According to city police reports, officers were called to a business in the 2100 block of Cobb Boulevard around 10:30 Saturday morning in...

July 4th travel is poised to break records. Triple-A is predicting over 72 million-people will venture at least 50 miles from home over the Independence Day holiday period from this coming Saturday to...

Illinois' unemployment rate remains the same. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the state's jobless rate was unchanged at four-point-eight percent last month. Non-farm payroll jobs w...

Let's find out now what's going on in the sky this week. With our Notable Night Sky News, here's Madeline Shepley, Astronomy Professor and Director of the Strickler Planetarium at Olivet

According to reports, officers saw a ford pick up truck driving at a high rate of speed west bound of West Broadway Street around 2:30 this morning, when the driver of the truck yelled out the window ...

According to reports, officers were called to the 200 block of Crestlane Drive in reference to someone allegedly in possession of a gun and making threats to shoot it. When officers got there, they sa...

According to city police reports, officers were called to a gas station on the 500 block of South Indiana Avenue just after 5:30 this morning for an armed robbery. Officers learned the suspect may hav...

The latest map just released today by the US Drought Monitor puts about 96 percent of Kankakee County and all of Iroquois County in the "abnormally dry" category, with just four percent of Kankakee Co...